[thelist] Quickly format text that contains e-mails and web site addresses?

[deke]

On 18 Dec 2001, at 22:47, Chris George (GSNet) posted a message which said:

> Word .doc's. :-/
 
> If it was ever tab delimited it'd be a piece of cake. I suppose I could
> have exported it as Word HTML and cleaned it up in Dreamweaver.... but I
> just can't bring myself to do that...

Why not save it as a flat ASCII file and parse it with Perl?

I end up writing a *lot* more throwaway Perl scripts for use on the 
desktop than I use on servers....

deke




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